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J A ME S R IV E R
D A N
R IVE R
RO A NO K E RI VE R
P I E DM O N T R R
NO R TH C A RO LI N A R R
W EST ER N NOR T H CAR O LIN A RR
W I L M I N GT O N CH A R LO T TE & R UT HE R F OR D T O N RR
N O R T H C A R O L I N A RR
YA DK I N R I VE R
R I C H M ON D A N D D A N V I L L E R R
Richmond
Amelia
Court House
Jetersville
Southside Junction
(Burkeville)
Keysville
Danville
Civil War
Trails Site
Staunton River Bridge
Greensboro
Salisbury
Charlotte
VIRGINIA
NORTH CAROLINA
Reidsville
Thomasville
Lexington
You Are Here
PINE GROVE CAMP
★ ★ ★
Confederate Government Seat
The exact location of Davis’s
camp is unknown but is most
likely near the house of Lind-say
L. Conrad, a Confederate
soldier whose leg had been
amputated. An earlier mark-er
southeast of here notes
the spot.
President Jefferson Davis
Courtesy Library of Congress
Zebulon B. Vance
Courtesy Library of Congress
For an hour on the evening of Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, a pine grove
outside Lexington became the de facto seat of government for the Confeder-ate
States of America and the state of North Carolina. President Jefferson
Davis and his cabinet, together with a cavalry escort from Gen. George G.
Dibrell’s division, entered Davidson County by carriage and on horseback
after disembarking from a train at Greensboro. The party traveled on the
Greensboro Road on the afternoon of Easter Sunday and camped near here
in a grove of pine trees on Abbott’s Creek. Some of the cavalrymen
bivouacked along the creek and set up guard posts.
Unknown to Davis, Abraham Lincoln lay dead in Washington,
assassinated the previous Friday. Davis met with his cabinet, including the
postmaster general and attorney general as well as the secretaries of state,
treasury, and war. At 10 P.M., North Carolina Governor Zebulon B. Vance
joined the group for an hour-long discussion of the war and whether to con-tinue
the fight, which Davis hoped to do. Afterward, Secretary of War John
C. Breckinridge and Postmaster General John H. Reagan left Lexington for
Durham to supervise the surrender discussions between Confederate Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston and Union Gen. William T. Sherman. Davis had
approved these negotiations while in Greensboro.
The next morning, April 17, Davis, the remaining cabinet members,
and the cavalry escort broke camp. They crossed the Yadkin River about
noon, left Davidson County, and headed for Salisbury and then Charlotte,
where Davis would learn of Lincoln’s death.

A PP OMA TT OX R I VE
R
J A ME S R IV E R
D A N
R IVE R
RO A NO K E RI VE R
P I E DM O N T R R
NO R TH C A RO LI N A R R
W EST ER N NOR T H CAR O LIN A RR
W I L M I N GT O N CH A R LO T TE & R UT HE R F OR D T O N RR
N O R T H C A R O L I N A RR
YA DK I N R I VE R
R I C H M ON D A N D D A N V I L L E R R
Richmond
Amelia
Court House
Jetersville
Southside Junction
(Burkeville)
Keysville
Danville
Civil War
Trails Site
Staunton River Bridge
Greensboro
Salisbury
Charlotte
VIRGINIA
NORTH CAROLINA
Reidsville
Thomasville
Lexington
You Are Here
PINE GROVE CAMP
★ ★ ★
Confederate Government Seat
The exact location of Davis’s
camp is unknown but is most
likely near the house of Lind-say
L. Conrad, a Confederate
soldier whose leg had been
amputated. An earlier mark-er
southeast of here notes
the spot.
President Jefferson Davis
Courtesy Library of Congress
Zebulon B. Vance
Courtesy Library of Congress
For an hour on the evening of Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, a pine grove
outside Lexington became the de facto seat of government for the Confeder-ate
States of America and the state of North Carolina. President Jefferson
Davis and his cabinet, together with a cavalry escort from Gen. George G.
Dibrell’s division, entered Davidson County by carriage and on horseback
after disembarking from a train at Greensboro. The party traveled on the
Greensboro Road on the afternoon of Easter Sunday and camped near here
in a grove of pine trees on Abbott’s Creek. Some of the cavalrymen
bivouacked along the creek and set up guard posts.
Unknown to Davis, Abraham Lincoln lay dead in Washington,
assassinated the previous Friday. Davis met with his cabinet, including the
postmaster general and attorney general as well as the secretaries of state,
treasury, and war. At 10 P.M., North Carolina Governor Zebulon B. Vance
joined the group for an hour-long discussion of the war and whether to con-tinue
the fight, which Davis hoped to do. Afterward, Secretary of War John
C. Breckinridge and Postmaster General John H. Reagan left Lexington for
Durham to supervise the surrender discussions between Confederate Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston and Union Gen. William T. Sherman. Davis had
approved these negotiations while in Greensboro.
The next morning, April 17, Davis, the remaining cabinet members,
and the cavalry escort broke camp. They crossed the Yadkin River about
noon, left Davidson County, and headed for Salisbury and then Charlotte,
where Davis would learn of Lincoln’s death.

A PP OMA TT OX R I VE
R
J A ME S R IV E R
D A N
R IVE R
RO A NO K E RI VE R
P I E DM O N T R R
NO R TH C A RO LI N A R R
W EST ER N NOR T H CAR O LIN A RR
W I L M I N GT O N CH A R LO T TE & R UT HE R F OR D T O N RR
N O R T H C A R O L I N A RR
YA DK I N R I VE R
R I C H M ON D A N D D A N V I L L E R R
Richmond
Amelia
Court House
Jetersville
Southside Junction
(Burkeville)
Keysville
Danville
Civil War
Trails Site
Staunton River Bridge
Greensboro
Salisbury
Charlotte
VIRGINIA
NORTH CAROLINA
Reidsville
Thomasville
Lexington
You Are Here
PINE GROVE CAMP
★ ★ ★
Confederate Government Seat
The exact location of Davis’s
camp is unknown but is most
likely near the house of Lind-say
L. Conrad, a Confederate
soldier whose leg had been
amputated. An earlier mark-er
southeast of here notes
the spot.
President Jefferson Davis
Courtesy Library of Congress
Zebulon B. Vance
Courtesy Library of Congress
For an hour on the evening of Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865, a pine grove
outside Lexington became the de facto seat of government for the Confeder-ate
States of America and the state of North Carolina. President Jefferson
Davis and his cabinet, together with a cavalry escort from Gen. George G.
Dibrell’s division, entered Davidson County by carriage and on horseback
after disembarking from a train at Greensboro. The party traveled on the
Greensboro Road on the afternoon of Easter Sunday and camped near here
in a grove of pine trees on Abbott’s Creek. Some of the cavalrymen
bivouacked along the creek and set up guard posts.
Unknown to Davis, Abraham Lincoln lay dead in Washington,
assassinated the previous Friday. Davis met with his cabinet, including the
postmaster general and attorney general as well as the secretaries of state,
treasury, and war. At 10 P.M., North Carolina Governor Zebulon B. Vance
joined the group for an hour-long discussion of the war and whether to con-tinue
the fight, which Davis hoped to do. Afterward, Secretary of War John
C. Breckinridge and Postmaster General John H. Reagan left Lexington for
Durham to supervise the surrender discussions between Confederate Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston and Union Gen. William T. Sherman. Davis had
approved these negotiations while in Greensboro.
The next morning, April 17, Davis, the remaining cabinet members,
and the cavalry escort broke camp. They crossed the Yadkin River about
noon, left Davidson County, and headed for Salisbury and then Charlotte,
where Davis would learn of Lincoln’s death.